The daughter of refugees, new MP Sally Sitou to reflect on parliament’s diversity | Dana_Adele
Sally Sitou’s parents avoided talk of politics after fleeing Laos during the Vietnam War, but they will watch proudly from the public gallery as the new Labor MP gives her first speech in parliament on Tuesday.
Labor MP Sally Sitou will deliver her first speech to parliament with parents Phet and Syphan looking on.“As I look around our House of Representatives today, it feels like finally it is starting to live up to its name,” Sitou will say in her speech, seen by“A house made up of people who truly represent and reflect their communities.”
She will quote former prime minister Bob Hawke who said in parliament that Australia’s eventual bipartisan rejection of race as a factor in immigration policy was “a triumph of compassion over prejudice, of reason over fear, and of statesmanship over politics”.Sitou grew up in Cabramatta in southwest Sydney and she and her brother were the first in the family to attend university. She describes herself as “the product of good public education”.
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